Jack Nance, best known for his role in David Lynch's TV series Twin Peaks, died of possible homicide in his home is South Pasadena, California, Monday 30 December 1996. Nance, a stage actor before working with Lynch in his 1978 cult film Eraserhead, was cast in all of his subsequent films except The Elephant Man.
Eraserhead (1977): $25/week

Got into a fight in December of 1996 with two men in a Winchell's donut shop, and was struck in the head. A friend came and checked up on him at his home the next day only to find him dead. Appeared in the Suicidal Tendencies video for the song "Institutionalized". Goes by his middle name John in Eraserhead and by the stage name Jack for the rest of his career. Up to the last moment, he was considered for the lead in The Graduate, the part that went to Dustin Hoffman .